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APPLIOATION FILEDMAR. 9. 1907.

fax Wanton VICTOR H. JENNINGS, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR .TO vMILLS WOVEN- CARTRIDGE BELT COMPANY, OF WORCESTER,

OF MASSACHUSETTS.

PATENT OFFICE.

MASSACHUSETTS, .A CORPORATION WOVEN FABRIC.

Patented July 2, 1907.

Application filed March 9, 1907. Serial no. 361,507.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Vroron II. J minutes, a subject of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Woven Fabrics, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to improvements in woven fabrics'having wide and narrow portions, and the object is to produce a fabric of this character having great strength but at the same time being graceful in appearance, and in which all the warp threads are continued throughout the fabric, thus avoiding cutting or otherwise removing the dead threads.

While I have illustrated my invention in the present instance in connection with suspenders for ammunition-belts, I do not limit it to this use, as it maybe employed in the production of many other articles, as for instance'surcingles, abdominal belts, etc.

In the drawings;-Figure 1 is a view of suspenders constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, an enlarged detail view taken at the juncture between the wide and narrow portions of the fabric; Fig. 3, asimilar view showing another method of weaving the fabric; Figs. 4, and 5, diagrammatic views of the fabric shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and Figs. 6 and 7 similar views of the fabrics shown in Fig. 3.

The suspenders shown in Fig. l consist of two strapmembers 1 and 2 crossed and held together at the point of crossin so as to have a limited movement, one upon sid'strnp-mcmbers consisting each oi narrow and wide portions 4 to form pads ior the portioin shoulders.

To produce the fabric shown in- Fig. 3, I begin by weaving a narrow iabric 3, which is, in effect, a flattened tube or hose, the flattened sides being securely bound, one to the other, by means of binder threads, so as to produce a solid fabric. When the desired length of narrow fabric has been woven the weave is changed,

so that one side of the said tubular portion is divided centrally, if split through the center. In the further weaving of the fabric, the divided side or ply of the tube is not interwoven with the other ply thereof, until it is again desired to produce a narrow portion, the two portions oi the divided ply being flattened out in the completed fabric in the same plane with the other ply, thus producing a wide portion 4, which is equal in width to the combined widths of the two interwoven or united plies of the narrow tubular portion 3. To accomplish this, when the point is reached in-the weaving of the narrow portion 3, where it is desired to obtain the tube. are dropped and the weft thread interwoven for. two picks with one-half only of the top ply. Then the harnesses carrying all of the top ply are raised, and one pick is interwoven in the lower ply. Then' the harnes ses carrying the'lower ply, and that half of the top I ply which was first "interwoven are dropped, and two picks are interwoven with the second half of the top ply Then, once more, all the harnesses carrying the top fply are raised, and the weft thread returns again through the lower ply, but on the pick opposite to the pick last interwoven in the lower ply. The operation is then repeated. The effect of this is to join to the; solid narrow web, a folded web whoseselvages meet on a line which is the extension. of the center line of the narrow web. The desired length of the fabric having thus been woven to form the wide portion, a succeeding narrow solid portion is then produced. When the fabric isremoved from the loom the two halves of the divided side or ply are spread out, and by means of ironing made absolutely fiat. Ifdesired the'triangular portions 5 of the divided ply where the narrow portion of the fabric merges into the wide portion,' formed by flattening or' ironing out the two halves of said divided ply may be fastened to the other ply by stitching or riveting, in order to prevent the tendency of the sides of the wide portion of the fabric to pull in by the strain on the na row. portion. i v

The two diagrammatic views illustrated in Figs. t and 5, show the manner of weaving above described. Fig.4 representing a section through the flattened tube, showing the binder threads a which secure the two plies b and 0 together, and Fig. 5, a section taken 8 through thil wide portion of the fabric before the two halves of the divided ply are flattened out.

In the form illustrated in Fig. 2, the fabric is shown as having its wide portion more than twice the width of the narrow portion. the narrow portion is woven as a flattened tube, con sisting of two plies d and c (Fig. 6) interwoven or bound together to form a solid fabric by the binder threads f, but in, addition it carries a number (if longitudinal threads 5. and h disposed between the two plies, said 95 produce the extra width of the wide portion over the 100 combined widths of the two plies of the narrow'portion.

The required length of the narrow portion having been produced, I begin the weaving of the triple cloth. The harnesses carrying the middle plyi and lower ply e are dropped, and two picks put in th upper ply, 19

which now includes the extra or former dead threads 71. Then the harnesses carrying the upper ply d ambsaid middle ply i are raised and one pick is woven in the lower ply The harnesses carrying the lower ply are then dropped, and the harnesses carrying the upper 1 .5

As in the first form described,

l nmlmer ha been described in connection with U plck is Woman in the war ply. Fig" 7 shows clearly ihe manner of Weaving the three aglies, the middle ply which now includes the former dead threads 9. the upper 41 the middl s lzm'nasses are missed 21 one lapping ova and extending beyond the enter of 112 lower ply and the upper ply lapping over the middle ply, and also extending beyond the line of the center of the lower 'ply.

From the above description, it will be seen that the \Villfi port-ion of the fabric consists of the two plies 01- 1 ing .the Hanoi? portiun with \L- additional Wi-zhfil;

by interweaving the dead threads Cm 1 said narrow pefiion. When La-km: fsom the loom ins, triple cloth is unfolded and ilitened out in the same Having .thus ull g described 111 Y invention, what I claim as new and desim to re by Letters Patent of the United-Stiles 15 7 '3. A-textile zzllric eompyisin-z a narrow partial: c011- sistlng. at um; or more imerxvovmz olles, and a wide pm- 'Lifilil formed of a single 12 2. A tee flzbric mmpz'islng sisl'lng 0;: tun '2' name inlurW-aven tiuu (0' eisfiug M a sin: ply for inter Jen plies and m'ltokllzzg Hm 0: plane A textile fabric comprising; a narrow and a wide psi-dun. the narrow portion consisting of two or more ix ervnwen plies. 16 the Wide portion consisting of a single ply which is formed 0!? and inc ides in its transverse extent the plies forming thev nnvzrov. purtiun. I 4. A textile fabric comprising; n'nariow pul'lzinu cmr '1 2 of o 01- more interwoven plies um] ag'nunber of isilg into fh 5mm? thereof, ml :1v Wide Lug n1" 2; s1 fc'rmgd b (11 g uue width by means of the extra threads can 1' portion la testimony whereof iaifix my signature in PlliS-LHCB of two witnesses.

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